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Federal (USA)

Private

John Carey

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd and 10th United States Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old laborer, he enlisted in New York in Battery B of the First US Artillery on 9 December 1857, but was "rejected" and discharged on 3 June 1858. He enlisted again, in St. Louis, MO, as a Private in Company F, 2nd United States Infantry on 24 July 1860.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 24 October 1862 until he was discharged for disability at Frederick, MD on 4 (or 5) March 1863.

References & notes

Service information from the Register.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Birth

c. 1835; County Tipperary, IRELAND

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 053, pg. 31; Vol. 141, pg. 116 [AotW citation 26414]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #104 [AotW citation 26415]

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